• mrdown@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        Europe profited from american imperialism for decades so please get of your high horse and do not pretend that your country is innocent.

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          3 days ago

          they didn’t accidentally fall into this gravy train, the same sort of imperial violence/coercion that the united states inflicts on the global south was also perpetrated on the western europeans; especially the italians.

          most don’t take note of it because the western euro gov’ts were in such a vulnerable state immediately after ww2 that they caved faster than the global south did.